Yes, [@Gene],
PDFs were never meant to be edited,
they are a finished presentation format,
a printed page layout format,
if we wanted something different on the paper print out we were looking at,
we would not take an X-acto knife to the paper,
but we’d edit the original document,
and then print again.
That said, PDFs are everywhere, and so, PDF content management has evolved to where some programming teams do put some incredible sophisticated intelligence into their programs, not just OCR optical character recognition, but also visible page elements awareness, and even, get this, search and replace, oh my.
But even the “best” PDF editor has limits, and I find that even in Adobe Acrobat Pro, the easiest way for me get it to remove headers, footers, page numbers, is to actually CROP THE PAGES as if I were using a paper cutter on a printed book to get just the page contents, then, after cropping, I can perform OCR, and then connecting the sentences that crossed pages is easier to do without headers and footers and pages numbers interrupting.
I still have to cobble together parts of uncropped pages, along with parts of cropped pages, to assemble a complete epub, I use free Word-equivalent and free Calibre, and it may take all day.
I have tried on-line PDF-to-epub converters, and I have tried a variety of software PDF-to-epub, and they all suck, either creating a mess, or just converting to hundreds of pages of JPGs, as if that’s a conversion.
No one converts a scanned image to text without arduous scrutiny after the fact.
Adobe puts the OCR text underneath the original image of the text, and does not even try to recognize and convert fonts, so the PDF looks the same as the original JPG because it’s still the original JPG overlay, but hey, the text is highlightable … but if you paste that text side by side, you’ll see tons of recognition errors nonetheless.
OmniPage and others have an endless run-through asking “what about this? and what about this?” where you hand-correct, and it supposedly learns … for … hundreds … of … pages ….
Might as well retype.
Instead, I often find official epub releases of PDF books at free [ b-ok. org ], then I do not have to convert at all!
I have no idea what “Neeppa” means:
Nae Pep
Ape Pen
Pea Pen
An Peep
Nap Pee
Pan Pee
Pa Peen
Pap Nee
A En Pep
?
Just do a search for combinations of [ download Adobe CS license giveaway Acrobat Pro ], they keep migrating, and maybe Adobe as asked the web archive to eliminate executable files it scraped from [ Adobe. com ], even in the day or so since my recent discovery and share.
And my links just have spaces to prevent anything looking like a web link, so I space around :// and I space after a period, that’s all, if they fail with spaces removes, then the source may have evaporated.
So, did you find anything useful and powerful or at least functional in Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor?
Thanks for exploring this and sharing.
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